Letter: Democracy at stake after Supreme Court decision

I am outraged at this recent decision of the Supreme Court to allow individuals to contribute as much as 5.9 million dollars during an election cycle. This decision, following the previous decision to treat corporations as individuals, is destroying our democracy. Who has this kind of money except the wealthiest 1 percent? What happened to the concept of liberty and justice for all?

What those five justices who voted for this have done is indefensible. They obviously want our elections to be bought by our richest citizens. The rest of us with our paltry grass-roots contributions can't begin to match the millions that will pour in to keep candidates in office who will support this kind of greed.

I am already ashamed of the amount of money we have been spending on our elections. Now it will expand exponentially while the poor among us and around the world will continue to struggle to have enough wherewithal to survive. What does this say about us as a nation?

The only solution is a constitutional amendment to rescind these decisions. That will not be easy, and we can't do it as individuals. What we can do is support groups like Common Cause, Public Citizen, the League of Women Voters, who have long been working on election reform. Also we can let our members of Congress know how we feel and that we expect them to do something. It's only our democracy that's at stake.